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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Jane Kirby

Around 3,000 lives could be saved ‘by changes to heart failure treatment’

Changes to heart failure treatment could save lives, regulators have said. (Alamy/PA) -

Around 3,000 lives could be saved and 5,500 hospital admissions prevented each year by changes to how people are treated for heart failure, according to a watchdog.

New draft guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) recommend medicines are given up to a year earlier.

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